United States to improve economic growth in Eastern Sri Lanka [September 20 2008]

USA has announced that its US Agency for International Development (USAID) will launch a new multi-year initiative to improve economic growth in Eastern Province. The US embassy in Colombo said that as part of the US Government's integrated strategy to address the root causes of conflict in Sri Lanka, the new program, Connecting Regional Economies (CORE), is designed to increase social and economic security in Eastern Sri Lanka.